Directions: In this section, each item consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and sixth sentences are given as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly on the Answer Sheet.
S1: India has been a welfare state since Independence.
S6: Elimination of poverty, ignorance, diseases and inequality of opportunities, and providing a better quality of life were the basic premise upon which all the plans of the development were built.
P: The policies and programmes have been designed with the aim of alleviation of rural poverty.
Q: The primary objective of all governmental endeavours has been the welfare of its rural population.
R: It was realized that a sustainable strategy of poverty alleviation has to be based on increasing the productive employment opportunities in the process of growth itself.
S: Ensuring rural welfare has been one of the main objectives of planned development in India.
The correct sequence should be:
- APRSQ
- BQPSR
- CRQSP
- DSRPQ
Explanation
Q follows S1 by narrowing the welfare objective to the rural population, P describes policies aimed at rural poverty alleviation, S frames this within planned development, and R presents the deeper realisation about productive employment, leading into S6 on the premise of all plans. This progression gives QPSR, option B.